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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1903
Page
4
The Bristol Town Council enacts an ordinance requiring hawkers and peddlers to obtain town licenses for selling on streets from May 1, 1903, with fees for wagons, carts, hand carts, or on foot, plus special daily licenses. It mandates white metal badges, transfer rules, penalties, exemptions for religious and certain venders, and outlines enforcement and effective May 1, 1908.
A Town Council special meeting discussed state road standards of 14 feet width and the option for wider roads by contract. The board may build a macadamized half mile section. Bristol can request wider work by May 1. Councilman Cummings to receive matter. Waldron to arrange street watering with National India Rubber Co. Highway surveyor ordered to recover remains of the moving van.
Rhode Island Drug Company promotes Mi o na as the best dyspepsia remedy sold with a money back guarantee. A deposit of 60 cents secures the purchase, and if the user is not cured, the company refunds the full amount. The ad touts quick relief and lasting digestive health.
The Empire Theatre hosts the Weber and Fields all star stock company on April 27 with a 7 45 pm start to aid suburban train schedules. Seats rise from 50 cents to 3 dollars due to travel costs while featuring Lillian Russell William Collier Fay Templeton Louise Allen and 125 performers in six train cars. Preparations for the Reliance cup defender include assembling the largest mainsail ever for a vessel and new moorings off the Herreshoff shops with Iselin in town and spare sails for the Sunbeam.
A committee meeting in the Memorial building discussed rapid transit and ferry connections with Rhode Island. Attendees included E. G. Buckland of the Consolidated Railroad and Newport representatives George A. Weaver and Coggeshall. The majority favored ferries at Franklin or Constitution streets to link Providence and Newport via Bristol with Cooperating support from Buckland.
W H Brown of Leesville Ind reportedly survived a near death when Dr King's New Discovery for Consumption cured his lung ailment. He praised immediate relief from asthma and a complete cure, noting the medicine also cures consumption pneumonia bronchitis and grip. Priced 60c and 1.00 guaranteed by J H Young & Co. druggists.
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